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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3] |
Sampson Battis |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][3] |
Abt 1750 |
New Hampshire, United States |
| Marriage |
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to Lucy Carey |
| Military[4] |
1776 |
Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United StatesEnlisted for service in American Revolution |
| Emancipation[5] |
Abt 1780 |
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| Military[5] |
1800 |
New Hampshire, United StatesMajor of Militia |
| Residence[3] |
1840 |
Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States |
| Death? |
1853 |
Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States |
| Burial[4] |
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Zion's Hill Cemetary, Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States |
African-American slave who enlisted with his master at Canterbury, New Hampshire in 1776. Granted his freedom and, in 1800, commissioned a Major of New Hampshire Militia.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI). (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genea).
Birth date: 1750Birth place: New Hampshire _APID: 3599::470213
- ↑ Sampson Battis, in Find A Grave.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record G)
Year: 1840; Census Place: Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire; Roll: ; Page: .
Birth date: abt 1751Birth place: Residence date: 1840Residence place: Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States _APID: 8057::3682340
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lyford, James O. (James Otis). History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1727-1912. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1912)
pg 21.
"Sampson Battis was doubtless the first person of the name of Battis in C. The exact date of his birth is not known, but it was probably in 1750. He was in C. as early as 1776, as he enlisted in the Revolutionary War in this town. His age is then given as 26. He m. Lucy Carey, a slave of William Coffin. Mr. Battis is said to have lived to the age of 103 years. A stone appropriately inscribed marks his grave in the C. Center cemetery. He had two children Sophia and Sampson - perhaps others."
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 PBS FrontLine. Secret Daughter - web pages for the production
Battis, 26 Nov 1996 (air date).
"In his two volume work on Canterbury, New Hampshire, published in 1912, James Lyford described how Sampson Battis (b.1750) won his freedom for the action he saw during the Revolutionary War. Colonel Moore, his master, not only released Battis but awarded him 100 acres of land. Because of his numerous progeny, the locality was for a while known as "New Guinea"."
"From Chandler Potter's "Military History of Hew Hampshire" we learn that Battis achieved the rank of Major when he was given command of a battalion by Governor Gilman in 1800. This probably makes him the first African American to be put in charge of a white troop and to be officially awarded this particular military title; a fact historians have not yet flagged."
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